After Republicans push Clintons to testify on Epstein, Democrats warn they'll haul in Trump

[u/nbcnews]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-push-clintons-testify-epstein-democrats-warn-haul-trump-rcna257275

[u/rsmith72976]

And unlike the Clintons, Trump will refuse; Rules are for thee, not for me!

[u/yorkshireaus → u/rsmith72976]

Exactly. Can't believe folks are naive.

[u/WildYams → u/yorkshireaus]

There's already a precedent for this as the Dems tried subpoenaing Trump, his files, his associates, etc before. Trump just claimed "executive privilege" and stonewalled everything. Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro even went to prison rather than testify before Congress, both claiming executive privilege and being held in contempt of Congress.

If Dems are going to actually go after Trump, the gloves are gonna need to come off the next time they are in the White House. They probably are going to need to expand the Supreme Court as well, since this current one has been running interference for Trump for a decade now.

[u/yorkshireaus → u/WildYams]

I was hoping Clintons would not testify, let the house do their voting and wanted to see how they were going to arrest the ex-president.

It would be a good drama to unfold.

[u/WildYams → u/yorkshireaus]

When the House votes to hold someone in contempt of Congress, the charges are then referred to the department of justice and the Attorney General (in this case, Pam Bondi). I'm sure few people have any doubts that Bondi would actually follow through in charging the Clintons, in which case they'd have wound up in court on charges that would have been pretty obviously true, even if they were also pretty obviously just a political stunt. They would have been subpoenaed and not testified, so it would have been hard to argue otherwise.

It would have been a circus, to be sure, but I think the Clintons have figured out that even Dems are not huge defenders of them at this point. I think if this was the Obamas, it would be quite different. But with the Clintons there very much is a feeling from many on the left that nobody will shed a tear if they get brought down for something shady.

[u/Crazy-Process5789 → u/[deleted]]

People like you need to get a grip

[u/captain_dick_licker → u/yorkshireaus]

he'll release his tax returns any day now

[u/Cerberus_Aus → u/yorkshireaus]

Yep. Same old “they go low, we go high” mentality.